On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Theodore Tso<tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > So we *do* have the warning light; the problem is that just as some > people may not realize that "check brakes" means, "YOU COULD DIE", > some people may not realize that "hard drive failure; RAID array > degraded" could mean, "YOU COULD LOSE DATA". > > Fortunately, for software RAID, this is easily solved; if you are so > concerned, why don't you submit a patch to mdadm adjusting the e-mail > sent to the system administrator when the array is in a degraded > state, such that it states, "YOU COULD LOSE DATA". I would gently > suggest to you this would be ***far*** more effective that a patch to > kernel documentation. In the case of a degraded array, could the kernel be more proactive (or maybe even mdadm) and have the filesystem remount itself withOUT journalling enabled? This seems on the surface to be possible, but I don't know the internal particulars that might prevent/allow it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
